Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With virtually no hope left for early lifting of the U.S. embargo on Canadian meat and livestock, Canada made a costly stop-gap agreement to trade her surplus beef and pork to Britain in exchange for New Zealand meat that she can resell to the U.S. (New Zealand cattle are free of the foot-and-mouth taint.) Canada stands to lose up to $10 million this year on the barter, but it is the only immediate way to clear up the glut of meat on the Canadian market. Domestic meat prices have already sagged, giving consumers a temporary break...
...Books that I scan, I scan very quickly. I can usually tell in ten minutes if they're worth reviewing. For a review, I read very, very slowly. It's one thing to read for simple enjoyment; it's quite another thing to read for style, meat and accuracy. That isn't to say that I don't enjoy reading the books I review. It's not carefree reading...
...Austerity. Israelis now live in an austerity that is more severe than Britain's. In the first three months of 1952 they got exactly 10.5 ounces of meat. Fortunately, a considerable part of the huge expenditures of the past four years has gone into capital improvements. The area under irrigation has doubled, the soil planted to vegetables tripled, the number of tractors on farms increased sixfold, a merchant marine of 34 ships of 120,000 tons created from nothing. Factories like Philco refrigerator and Kaiser-Frazer have sprung...
Haitians are infinitely queer Say the Americans, with a jeer. They eat their salad before their meat And refuse the salty in favor...
...Purchasing agents, the nation's keenest judges of buying trends, reported that for the fifth consecutive month business has trimmed its inventories; they counted twice as many production declines as increases. Department store sales were still below last year's, and commodity prices kept on falling (e.g., meat, cotton, wheat, pulp and paper...